Lead Devops Engineer (Quality Cloud Architect)

About Us:

ClearRoute is an is an engineering consultancy bridging Quality Engineering, Cloud Platforms and Developer Experience. We work with technology leaders facing complex business challenges.

We take as much pride in our people, culture, and work-life balance as we do in making better software. We’re not just making better software. We’re making the software better. Collaborative, entrepreneurial, and dedicated to problem-solving, we bring the step change our customers need to sustain innovation. Our values challenge us to do the best we can for ClearRoute, our customers, and most importantly, your team. We want to create a collaborative team to help build ClearRoute. This is an opportunity for you to build the organization from the ground up, use your voice to drive change, and help transform organisations and problem domains.

Job Role

We are seeking a hands-on Senior DevOps Lead to drive the modernization of our global infrastructure and end-to-end application deployment capabilities. This role will be pivotal in designing and implementing unified, automated, and cloud-native solutions across a highly distributed, hybrid estate.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the assessment and transformation of existing infrastructure management and deployment pipelines.
• Architect and implement unified DevOps frameworks across on-prem and cloud (AWS) environments.
• Drive adoption of modern IaC, configuration management (e.g., Terraform, Chef), and GitOps practices.
• Integrate tools and processes across provisioning (VMware/Nutanix/ESXi), OS patching, and CMDB (ServiceNow).
• Guide containerization, orchestration (Kubernetes/EKS), and workload optimization initiatives.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to reduce deployment complexity and cognitive load.
• Build automation to enable dynamic workload placement and lifecycle management.

Requirements:

• 8+ years of DevOps experience with large-scale, hybrid infrastructure.
• Expertise in AWS, VMware, Linux (RHEL), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible/Chef).
• Deep understanding of CI/CD, GitOps, container platforms (Kubernetes/EKS/OpenShift).
• Proven experience integrating disparate infrastructure tools and automating end-to-end workflows.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to influence architecture and operations.
• Experience in performance-sensitive environments is a plus.

Nice to Have:

• Exposure to legacy-to-cloud migration and M&A infrastructure integration.
• Familiarity with cost optimization and license rationalization (VMware, AWS).
• Understanding of SRE principles and platform engineering practices.